20 April 2018: Reconstructing Libraries Study Afternoon
Doddridge’s library in context: education and the book trade
Tessa Whitehouse (QMUL), ‘Doddridge’s library and others: Purpose, perpetuation, preservation’
Isabel Rivers (QMUL), ‘Doddridge’s library in context’
Alison McNaught (QMUL), ‘An exploration of the roles of author and bookseller in the production and dissemination of Doddridge’s Family Expositor, 1735-1739 and after’
Demonstration of project
Kyle Roberts (Loyola University, Chicago), ‘Shelfmarks as a means for reconstructing a lost library’
Historical libraries research and public dissemination
Robyn Adams (UCL), ‘Building a Library Without Walls: the Early Years of the Bodleian Library’
Ed Potten (Durham), ‘ “A great number of useful books”: Towards a union catalogue of seventeenth-century private libraries’
Rachel Eckersley (Visiting Research Fellow, QMUL), ‘Public dissemination of historical libraries research: the Virtual Library System and the Philip Doddridge Collection’